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San Francisco, July 12 (IANS) Google has been sued in a class-action lawsuit that alleged that the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent using its artificial intelligence (AI) tools.The lawsuit said Google also violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its AI products, reports CNN.The class-action suit was filed on Tuesday against Google, its parent company Alphabet, and AI subsidiary DeepMind in a federal court in Californiaand was brought by Clarkson Law Firm.The firm previously filed a similar suit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI last month. (OpenAI did not previously respond to a request for…

This facility is being developed in-house by the IT department of the court and this new innovation will be just one of the many path breaking initiatives of the IT team.This new facility comes close on the heels after both the High Court and district courts employed ‘Anuvadini’, an AI tool developed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) of the Ministry of Education, to translate judgments of the High Court and district courts to Malayalam.Using this tool, over 317 High Court judgments and over 5,136 district court judgments have already been translated from English to Malayalam and…

The 73-year-old Van Houten was 19 when she participated in the August 10, 1969, murders of Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary LaBianca, at their Los Angeles residence, reports ABC News.The LaBiancas were both stabbed to death and the word “war” was carved on Leno LaBianca’s stomach.The murders took place just days after the ghastly killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others at another Los Angeles home.In a statement, he California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Van Houten was released on Tuesday to parole supervision and “will have a three-year maximum parole term with a parole discharge review…

Coventry described the end of the 18-month suspension as “exciting” and “incredible” at a press conference in Harare, reports Xinhua.FIFA lifted the ban on Monday, only two days before the draw for the African qualifiers for the next World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA.The ban was imposed more than a year ago after what FIFA viewed as government interference in the administration of the sport, state news agency New Ziana reported.The ban followed a government-sanctioned dissolution of an elected national football body, the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), an affiliate of FIFA.A four-member team has been appointed to run…

The breaches took place at Makorad Sahib, Phulad and Mandvi villages.Paddy crops on thousands of acres were submerged in water within hours of the river breaching its banks. The floodwater has not entered residential areas so far.The breach, caused by rising levels of water in the river due to heavy rain, developed at several places as the teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) failed to plug them.To make the relief operations more effective across the state, 14 teams of the NDRF and two teams of the SDRF have been working in flood-affected areas, a government statement said on…

The parties agreed to a deal that runs until December 2024 after Medel completed a medical in Rio de Janeiro on Monday, reports Xinhua.”I want to thank you [the fans] for the welcome you have given me,” the 35-year-old said in a video published on Vasco’s social media accounts.”I hope I can bring the positive results you expect. I know that by being together we will be able to reverse this (difficult) situation,” he added, in reference to Vasco’s poor start to the Brazilian Serie A season.Medel, who has been capped 156 times for Chile’s national team, had been without…

The company was working on ‘Bubble Characters’ app, however it recently “deprioritised” those plans amid an internal reorganisation, according to materials seen by CNBC.When a product gets deprioritised at Google, the development work on it ceases.According to internal documentation, the Bubble Characters app featured “a choice of a talking digital character that would interact in conversations with Gen Z users,” the report said.The tech giant had been working on this app since quarter four (Q4) of 2021.The app’s description mentioned that it featured “human-like” conversations that “take action” and are “interesting for GenZ.”Large language models—massive data sets used to understand…

The Serbian will play Italy’s eighth seed Jannik Sinner for a place in the final. Sinner booked his first Grand Slam semifinal appearance by beating Russia’s Roman Safiullin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, reports Xinhua.However, Djokovic will play his 46th major semifinal, equalling Roger Federer’s men’s singles record.25-year-old Rublev was playing in his eighth major quarterfinal, but remains in search of his maiden Slam semifinal. No man has contested as many Grand Slam quarterfinals without a win in the Open Era. Rublev was also beaten by Djokovic this year in the Australian Open quarters, with the 36-year-old going on to win…

According to the latest bulletin of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), of the 48,747 affected people, 29,757 are in in Lakhimpur district, 15,461 in Biswanath and 2,715 in Dhemaji.The death toll in the current flood season stood at seven as no new fatality was reported in the past 24 hours, the bulletin said.In Lakhimpur district, at least 67 villages and 545.50 hectares of crop land remain inundated.The Brahmaputra river at Nimatighat in Tezpur and Disang river in Nanglamuraghat are flowing above the danger level, according to the ASDMA data. The floods have also impacted more than 50,000 domestic…

On being informed, the Bharthana police and a forensic team reached the spot and found Puranmal Das hanging from a tree near the temple premises on Tuesday.The body has been sent for post-mortem.Station House Officer, Bharthana Bhupendra Singh Rathi said that Das had been living on the temple since the age of 5.His parents had died when he was very young. He used to take care of the temple, besides organising puja and aarti.–IANSamita/shb